To The Aotg.com Community,

It is with a heavy heart that we announce we will no longer be updating Aotg.com. Back in 2007, when we started, there was a lack of access to information about film, television, and commercial editing. We wanted to fix that by creating a central location for content about editing to be stored.

Since then, we've watched the amount of content about editing on the internet grow exponentially. We've also watched social media tools come and go with that growth. Does anyone remember Google Wave!? These social media tools changed how people access and search for media and information. People tend to turn to Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram for their news and information, and those are all great tools to promote your sites, but as a site that aggregates links to other sites for users, it just doesn't work for us.

We will keep the site live but archive the ability to add links and comments. We will keep our database live with the links for those who desire to use it to search for editing information and research.

Our podcast, The Cutting Room, will move over to the Filmmakeru.com website and will continue to be a place for interviews with editors and other film professionals.

Everyone who worked for Aotg.com loved what we created and are proud that we could help so many editors find content that spoke to them.

I look forward to seeing everyone at the various post events worldwide in the coming years!

Yours truly,
Gordon Burkell
Aotg.com Founder

Hard drive trouble

January 18, 2012, 11:17 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/blogs/?entryid=3330740&blog...

Was working on 3 different projects, back to back, no room to stop. It was sleep and work and eat and nothing else for a week. Everything is going good - I've got happy clients and I'm happy to have cleared some work and made room for the next load. So I decide to do the essential and clone the drive.

Useful Tools for Editors: Tonalizer|VFX

January 18, 2012, 11:13 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=8347

Here's an interesting color correction plug-in for Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Pro 7 and Motion users: Tonalizer|VFX. Released last year by the Danish company Irudis, Tonalizer stands apart from all the other color correction plug-ins out there with its nuanced approach to the task. Plus, it can do some things that a lot of other FCPX plug-ins can't. For starters, it doesn't try to hit you over the head with canned presets and it doesn't encourage extreme corrections.

Video Editors, How Do You Manage Disk Space?

January 18, 2012, 11:11 AM

http://nofilmschool.com/2012/01/handy-mac-app-mana...

Video takes up a lot of hard drive space. HD video more so than SD, 4K more than HD… and since the flooding in Thailand, hard drive prices have spiked precipitously. So there's always room in an editor's toolkit for an app to analyze drive space and zero in on the largest directories to delete or move. Similar to my approach to tracking time, freeing up space is all about focusing on what's important: in this case, the largest files. DaisyDisk is a paid Mac app that I find myself using...

Video Space an iOS disk space calculator

January 18, 2012, 11:08 AM

http://www.fcp.co/hardware-and-software/pro/702-vi...

Digital Rebellion have launched Video Space for the iPhone and iPad, a disk space calculator for media storage. How many times have you had to calculate disk space by looking at an existing file and working out how many MB or GB a minute of video is? This new USD2.99 app fom Digital Rebellion will take the guessing out of calculating how big your hard drive or SAN needs to be.

Digital Heaven Releases Final Cut Pro X Unleashed

January 18, 2012, 11:06 AM

http://www.2-pop.com/article/115246

Digital Heaven has announced the release of the Final Cut Pro X Unleashed Bundle. Last year's release of Final Cut Pro X marked a radical new chapter in the application's history, with new workflows and approaches to editing. Final Cut Pro X Unleashed by Edgar Rothermich is the must-have manual for the FCPX editor.

The HPA Tech Retreat

January 18, 2012, 11:05 AM

http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/briefingroo...

(Los Angeles, CA) The Hollywood Post Alliance(r) Tech Retreat 2012, the 18th annual gathering of post production industry leaders, is set to take place February 14-17, at the Hyatt Grand Champions Resort in Indian Wells, CA. Over the course of four days, the industry's technical, business and creative leaders will gather for exploration and information exchange, sharply focusing on the latest developments and trends.

Review: Avid Media Composer 6

January 18, 2012, 11:00 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/13634.html

The biggest news for editors when Avid began shipping Media Composer 6 last November was the NLE's transformation into a very modern, 64-bit application. Along with that came other great updates, including the support of third-party hardware options (several of which I tested with this review).

Western Digital previews My Book Thunderbolt Duo

January 18, 2012, 10:55 AM

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/12/2701446/western-...

We just left a Western Digital preview event where the company provided an early glimpse at its yet-to-be-officially-announced My Book Thunderbolt Duo pair of external hard drives. Two models will be available initially, offering either 4 or 6 terabytes of storage capacity. As the Duo in the product name implies, each device carries two 3.5-inch disks, meaning that the 4TB model contains 2 x 2TB drives; the larger 6TB version holds 2 x 3TB HDDs.

FSI releases new monitor firmware

January 18, 2012, 10:54 AM

http://colorgrader.net/index.php/grading-accessori...

Firmware Version 9.45-1777 is now shipping on all new FSI monitors and is available for free download to existing FSI customers. This update adds a long requested feature by updating the RGB and GBR Parade modes so that the Red, Green, and Blue Channels are color coded as Red, Green, and Blue to make the scope more intuitive to read. In these modes levels over 100IRE or under...

Dark Roast Post - My Favourite Chroma Key Plug

January 17, 2012, 07:39 PM

http://darkroastpost.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-favou...

My favourite of all the Boris Continuum plug-ins for Avid Media Composer is the BCC Chroma Keyer. It somehow just "automagically" works. However in all truth, I would probably use the Avid keyer in a real world situation, because it is a real time plug. Then composite during the online. All depends on the scale of project.

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